EGYPT
- Which was given to Ezekiel first, the word of the
Lord concerning Tyre or the word of the Lord concerning Egypt in
29:1-16?
- Who or what said, "My Nile is mine, and I myself
have made it"? (29:3, 9)
- Do the fish that are drawn out with the monster
in 29:4 represent the inhabitants of Egypt, the nations who had made
alliances with Egypt, or something else?
- What would become of the monster?
- Egypt was compared to what in verses 7-8?
- Who else had made this same comparison and on
what occasion? (2 Ki. 18:21, Is. 36:6)
- What was the point of the comparison? (cf. 29:16)
- What is the probable significance of the number
"40" in verses 11 -13? (cf. Gen 7:17, Ps. 95:10-11, Ezek. 4:6)
- What would happen at the end of the 40 years?
- The Egyptians would return to "the land of
_________," which was "the land of their __________."
- On Pathros, see Jer. 44:1, Gen 10:13, 14, 1 Chron.
1:12, Is. 11:1)
- Is the modern state of Israel excluded from
signing a mutual protection pact with Egypt by the declaration of God in
Ezek. 29:16?
- In what verse of chapter 29 does a new "word of
the Lord" begin?
- What is the date of this "word of the Lord"?
- What is the relationship of the subject of this
"word of the Lord" to the previous message of verses 1- 16?
- Explain why Nebuchadnezzar and his army "had no
wages from Tyre."
- Because of this, according to Ez. 29:19, what
would the Lord do?
- What other reason was given for this in 29:20?
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- What statement is found at the end of each
section of announcements against a nation or nations? (Ammon 25:7, Moab
25:11, Edom 25:14, Philistia 25:17, Tyre & Sidon 28:25-26, Egypt 29:21)
- Along with this, an optimistic reference to whose
future is included in the cases of Edom, Tyre & Sidon, and Egypt?
- A third section concerning Egypt begins in 30:1,
but is not dated. Chronologically, is it best to understand this section
as following 29:1-16, or 29:17-21? (Consider the implications of
question 20.)
- The fall of Egypt is described in what way in
30:3?
- Which of the figures used to describe the fall of
Egypt in Ezek. 30:3 and 32:7-8 are also used to describe the fall of
Jerusalem in Mt. 24:29-30?
- What is the significance of clouds in Ezek. 30:3
and Mt. 24:30? (cf. Ps. 18:9-12, Ezek. 1:4, Is 19:1. Also see Ex. 13:21;
19:16-18; and Lev. 16:2)
- Keeping this in mind, will it necessarily be a
cloudy day, literally, at the time when 1 Thess. 4:16-17 is fulfilled?
(Also compare Acts 1:9-11)
- Identify the geographical locations of the
nations mentioned in verse 5 of chapter 30 by the names of the modern
nations in those regions. (See a commentary or other reference book.)
- According to Jer. 46:9, what was the connection
between these nations and Egypt?
- Again in this, the third section concerning
Egypt, who is identified as the one by whose hand God would come against
Egypt?
- What was Memphis (KJV -Noph) and what was said
about it in 30:13?
- What were Pathros, Zoan, Thebes (KJV -No), Sin,
On.(KJV: Aven), Pi-beseth, and Tehaphnehes?
- In what year did Ezekiel receive word from God
that He had broken the arm of Pharaoh?
- Did this mean that Egypt had fallen to
Nebuchadnezzar?
- What was yet to happen? (vs. 22-25)
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